On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:54:35 -0500, dpb wrote:

Paul Franklin wrote:
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:51:13 -0500, wrote:

I'm trying to fix this antique black and white tv.
There's a part in the tv that says .001 uufd on it. ...
uufd means micro-micro farad. Now it's called picofarad. You have a
.001 picofarad capacitor. (This is a very small value, are you sure
you have the decimal point right?) ...

If he does (have the point right, that is), that would equate to 1 nF
(nanofarad)...although I think standard nomenclature uses the uuF instead???

Not unheard of, but quite small, indeed.

Metric prefixes=

eta- 10^18=1,000,000,000,000,000,000
peta- 10^15=1,000,000,000,000,000
tera- 10^12=1,000,000,000,000
giga - 10^9=1,000,000,000
mega 10^6=1,000,000
kilo- 10^3=1,000
10^0=1
mili- 10^-3=.001
micro- 10^-6=.000,001
nano- 10^-9=.000,000,001
pico- .10^-12=.000,000,000,001
femto- 10^-15=.000,000,000,000,001
atto- 10^-18=.000,000,000,000,000,001

1 nanofarad = 1000 picofarad = .001 microfarad
..001 picofarad = 1 femtofarad.
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